Located approximately 10 minutes from the island’s capital in an urban community, is an institution that is almost forty years old. This institution forms part of the South Eastern, St. Andrew police division and is one of the division’s most depressed areas, where unemployment, poverty and crime are at a high. This co-educational institution stands as a testament to past political struggles and civil unrest of the 1980’s general elections. Named after one of the political party’s most prolific activists, the school has faced a tense period of uncertainly as a merger loomed on the near horizon. The amalgamation of both High Schools on such close proximity was inevitable as both schools faced low enrollment and poor performance of students in grades 7-10. The South Eastern St. Andrew based school is located within a
This High Achievers Club will consist of students who have excelled at five subjects or more and attained 70% and above in their different subjects. The idea of setting up a High Achievers Club is necessary because most of the students who are awarded a space at the institution are those who scored poorly on the various national tests and are at a state known as “learned-helplessness” which is described as a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed. Therefore, the goals of this High Achievers Club is to motivate students intrinsically and extrinsically to strive to achieve to their fullest potential, thus helping to fulfil the vision stated above, while at the same time decreasing the level of